St Lou Fringe

St Lou Fringe Festival
August 16th-August 23rd

St Lou Fringe has pivoted to serve the needs of our artists and community during this era of uncertainty.

The 10th Annual St Lou Fringe Festival will be a HYBRID festival. This virtual and realtime multi-disciplinary arts festival experience is the first of its kind in this region. In the wake of COVID-19 St Lou Fringe has pivoted to create a virtual festival platform that will guarantee our artists the ability to share their work with our patrons from the comfort and safety of their own homes. We do plan to have a tract of live performances as well if we are so able to engage in August. Further, we have opened our festival to any arts organization in the St Louis region to submit a piece of work and share it virtually, in hopes of breaking some of the gridlock the performing arts community is experiencing due to the pandemic. Finally, we will promote and provide all 2021 St Lou Fringe virtual submissions a 12 month platform beginning with their first showing at the festival in August a global community of patrons to experience their works. Our hope is that we will be able to help our independent artists re-coop some of the income they have lost during this time over the course of the following year.

St Lou Fringe needs your donations now more than ever before to ensure we are able to virtually serve the entire arts community through our online festival.

This year, our multi-discipline, multi-venue and multi-day festival will again celebrate all the unheard artistic voices in our region and beyond. The headline acts proudly boast the moniker, "The Year of the Female Artist", featuring: National Headline Act, Performance Poet Heather 'Byrd' Roberts performing her original poetry about life as a young black woman in today's America; Audrey Crabtree is back to celebrate her famed character Deeny Nast as our Late Night Headline Act; and our Local Headline Act is a dynamic world-premiere opera about the award-winning poet, Sara Teasdale, titled, Flame and Shadow by Nika Leoni and Kathryn Favazza.

The Fringe invited artist series includes: a play in the front seat of a car focusing on racial equity; a new play produced by Solid Lines Theatre and an Improvised Political Debate conceived by Steven Harowitz. Finally, we will bring back our second year of Our Trans Stories, a partnership of Joan Lipkin, MTUG and St Lou Fringe to develop pieces that tell the stories of our trans youth in the region.

Finally, the lifeblood of our festival is the St Lou Fringe Lottery. Our lottery will bring us works from 25+ independent artists who blindly submitted to an open call application process. Their names are placed into a fishbowl and drawn out live at our kick-off event in March and then give a stage and the opportunity to perform whatever they can create on it.

Ten years of St Lou Fringe. Hundreds of artists. Voice to the Voiceless.

Please consider donating to St Lou Fringe and putting our artists back to work making stories for the stage.